STRUCTURE, GOALS & CURRENT STATUSGiorgos Stefanidis

2nd Consortium MeetingAmersfoort, 8.7.2013

Current status• Project started 01.01.2013. First six months completed.• Subprojects (WPs) have been staffed. First steps towards

meeting the first deliverable committments have been made.

• First biannual technical report to be sent to the Project officer within 2 weeks

• No financial issues• Consortium agreement: feedback has been received by

some partners. An updared version will be sent by the TUD contract manager to the partners for approval.

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General concept

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“The general aim of the project is to develop a hierarchical methodology for targeted supply of three alternative forms of energy (ultrasound, plasma and microwaves) in novel integrated reactors to precisely control chemical transformations and reaction pathways. It is based on fundamental mechanism understanding, advanced modeling, experimentation, and model validation. An anticipated groundbreaking solution will consist in creating a reaction environment in which the right type of energy is transferred selectively from the source to the target molecules in the required form, in the required amount, at the required moment, and at the required position.”

General work plan

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Ultrasound

TUDOTUDYORK

SAIREMJP

JPKULTUD

SAIREM

ANTUDOTUD

SAIREMSM

Advanced pharmaceuticalsynthesis

Green fuelsynthesis

Technologies

Dem

onstration

WP 1 WP 3WP 2

WP 5

WP 4

KULTUD

TUDOJP

SM Ultrasound

Microw

aves

TUDAN

SAIREM

Plasma

Data generationMechanisms and models

Equipment design and scale up

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Fuels and Pharmaceuticals Syntheses

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• Methanol from CO2 hydrogenation and syngas from biomass gasification activated by (microwave) plasma.

• Ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) and Diethyl carbonate (DEC) from transesterification of DMC with ethanol via reactive distillation activated by microwaves. Effect of US on VLE.

• API synthesis in millireactors activated by microwaves (some chemistries have been suggested by JM)

• Paracetamol synthesis in millireactors and OFRs assisted by ultrasound and microwaves

• Reactive extraction in biphasic water/toluene (other solvent) systems assisted by ultrasound

Schedule

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EquipmentDesign &

Development

Experimentation for Data set Generation

Equipment implementation &Process Evaluation

Demonstration

1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year

Research & Technical Development

ALTEREGO Workflow

Model Development

First Deliverables

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WP1: Month 12 (Report)• Complete set of data for comparison between US and non-US processes and for

input to modeling.

WP2: Month 12 (Report)• Complete set of thermodynamic and kinetic data.

WP3: Month 15 (prototype)• Small scale microwave plasma (catalytic) reactor integrated with process analytics

tools.

WP7: Every 6 months (report)• Biannual report